Defence news from @helsinki.fi Law! 🎩 @miikkamh.bsky.social defends their dissertation 'From Digital Single Market to Reining in Big Tech’ on Sat 7 March at 12(:15). Opponent Anu Bradford @columbiauniversity.bsky.social; custos PäiviLeino-Sandberg. tapahtumat.helsinki.fi/en-FI/page/6...

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I’m thrilled to share that my new article, “Platforms, Digital Single Market, and the Hope of Trust: Online Platform Imaginaries of the European Commission,” has now been published in @transnationallt.bsky.social. 💫 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Platforms, Digital Single Market, and the hope of trust: online platform imaginaries of the European Commission

The article studies how the European Commission’s imagination of online platforms has evolved as a part of its imagining of the European digital future in the last two decades. Based on an interpre...

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new article in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social on the concept of systemic risks in the DSA. what does it mean that we think of all kinds of social issues linked to online platforms as 'risks' to be managed? find out this way: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Yey, including also my latest piece on exploring the legal making of European digital economy 🌟

European Law Open@europeanlawopen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy to announce a new issue has dropped. Good stuff. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Many congratulations to @miikkamh.bsky.social and Päivi Leino-Sandberg for being awarded the prize for the 'best referee article published in Lakimies in 2024' for on 'The four regulatory frameworks of online targeted political advertising in European law', based on the Norface Indigo project.

Thank you all for joining the book launch of 'The Dynamics of Powers in the European Union' co-edited by Päivi L-S, Christina Eckes and Anna Wallerman. And thanks to the great discussants @jekantol.bsky.social , @pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social, @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu, Joni Heliskoski.

Last Friday, I successfully defended my doctoral thesis on migration management and refugee struggles at the EU external borders! My heartfelt gratitude to my opponent @myrmek.bsky.social who raised important and critical questions & my supervisors @panuminkkinen.bsky.social and Dr Päivi Neuvonen.

Oh what a super interesting article just dropped on First View @europeanlawopen.bsky.social by @dionkramer.bsky.social on rental housing platforms and European internal market/integration! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Montako uutista olette nähneet nostettavan BlueSky- tai Mastodon-postauksista? Suomalainen media kannustaa käymään yhteiskunnallista keskustelua erityisesti X:ssä ja Metan alustoilla, ja se on ongelma. www.suomenmaa.fi/uutiset/vihr...

Vihreiden Harjanne kritisoi suomalaismedian uutislähteitä – "Kilpaileviakin alustoja on" - Suomenmaa.fi

Vihreiden kansanedustaja Atte Harjanne katsoo, että suomalainen media ”pönkittää tahtomattaan Elon Muskin ja...

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I spent a year observing the quantum technologies standardisation landscape (so you don't have to) and next week (Tuesday 14th Jan) I will be sharing some of my findings and experience. Register here in case of interest: www.ivir.nl/events/where...

Speaking of which: as @petroster.bsky.social puts it, 'Digital Constitutionalism falsely implies the absence of law rather than its presence – or indeed irrelevance – as major causes of this ‘constitutional crisis’. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My new paper on the legal making of the European digital economy is out today on First View in the always insightful European Law Open! 💫 What a wonderful way to close this personally fulfilling and eventful year 😊 (even though, globally, the year's been very bleak...)

European Law Open@europeanlawopen.bsky.social · 2y ago

On First View: @miikkamh.bsky.social would like to see a little less 'gap' research into the European digital economy, and more attention to the structuring role of law in the current grotesque conditions. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I just know this is going to be great 🔥

European Law Open@europeanlawopen.bsky.social · 2y ago

On First View: @miikkamh.bsky.social would like to see a little less 'gap' research into the European digital economy, and more attention to the structuring role of law in the current grotesque conditions. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Now I made it! The starter pack you've been looking for: Critical legal scholars, broadly understood - Marxist, LPE, postcolonial, TWAIL, feminist, queer approaches, etc., to law. I'll keep adding names, so feel free to tell me if you (or others) should be there (or shouldn't). go.bsky.app/Jm6c1nb

I wrote a brief op-ed on whether Europe should aim for its own digital corporate "champions," and it's now out in the always insightful Internet Policy Review. 💫 policyreview.info/articles/new...

A bit of something in Finnish as well. Kirjoitin kautensa päättävän komission ihmiskeskeisen digitalisaation projektista Johanna Kantolan ja Anna Elomäen toimittamaan EU-vaalit ja unionin suunta -juttusarjaan Politiikasta-lehdessä. politiikasta.fi/eu-vaalit-ja...

EU-vaalit ja unionin suunta: Ihmiskeskeinen digitalisaatio – Politiikasta

Ihmiskeskeinen digitalisaatio oli yksi nykyisen komission tärkeimpiä hankkeita. Suuri määrä uutta sääntelyä on kauden päättyessä hyväksytty unionissa, mutta uuden komission harteille jää vielä paljon ...

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EU-komission ja -parlamentin kausien tullessa päätökseen kävin juttelemassa unionin digisääntelyn tavoitteista ja keinoista @mattiylonen.bsky.social kanssa Alustojen valta -podcastissa. Käykääpä kuuntelemassa! open.spotify.com/episode/2nbH...

Alustajättejä suitsimassa: Miikka Hiltunen ja EU:n sääntelyvalta

Listen to this episode from Alustojen valta on Spotify. Tuotantokautensa aikana tämä podcast on tarkastellut digitaalisten alustajättien vallan eri ulottuvuuksia lukuisista näkökulmista aina lainopill...

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Many governments want to install 'backdoors' into encrypted messenger services like WhatsApp, Signal, or Telegram. The ECtHR now ruled against such backdoors. ERIK TUCHTFELD with an analysis: verfassungsblog.de/no-backdoor-...

Just FYI: at the top of my upcoming book list right now www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

The Ordinal Society — Harvard University Press

A sweeping critique of how digital capitalism is reformatting our world.We now live in an “ordinal society.” Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, ranked, and processed into discrete, standard...

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Today we open an investigation into TikTok over suspected breach of transparency & obligations to protect minors: 📱Addictive design & screen time limits 🕳️ Rabbit hole effect 🔞 Age verification 🔐 Default privacy settings Enforcing DSA for safer Internet for youngsters

Been there ....

🌍Join us for Jan Klabbers' presentation on "The Business of International Organizations" 📚 🗓️ November 30 🕒 15:30 - 17:30 📍 Faculty of Law, Maastricht Uni, Room C0.308 / Zoom For more info and to register, visit➡️https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/lecture-business-international-organizations

new paper just dropped 🥳🥳 I am incredibly excited to share this, it's probably my favourite thing that I've written doi.org/10.26116/tec...

The Law and Political Economy of Online Visibility: Market Justice in the Digital Services Act

The paper critically assesses the regulation of social media recommendations in the EU’s 2022 Digital Services Act (DSA), drawing on Sarah Banet-Weiser’s economies of visibility theory. Banet-Weis...

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🔥🔥 call for papers 🔥 🔥 calling all ECRs working on tech law & related topics: sciences po law & tech group is hosting the next Junges Digitales Recht conference on the 6-7 June 2024 and it promises to be unmissable details here! 👉 www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-droit/... reposts much appreciated 🙏

Young Digital Law Conference 2024: Conflicts & Communities in Digital Law

Call for papers (The deadline for submissions is the 19th January 2024)

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Just so that my profile is not blank, my PhD research investigates the EU's efforts to "rein in Big Tech" through law. I'm interested in digital policy and regulation, political economy, and inequalities among others. Posting mostly to share my research activities.